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How to tag

Place a node centrally at the location of the toilet amenities and tag it amenity=toilets. Alternatively draw an area over the toilet building, tag it building=yes and amenity=toilets. Then consider annotating with:

drinking_water=yes/no if a drinking water source is immediately associated with (usually outside) the toilet. Note: if you have detailed tagging needs, it is cleaner to create a separate node as amenity=drinking_water.

female=yes/no and male=yes/no tags go on the same entrance nodes or even on an area within a building

unisex=yes/no indicates an entrance/area which is available to all. These are sometimes called 'family toilets'.

Detail like this may be particularly useful for visually impaired users. Individual entrances/areas can also be individually mapped for wheelchair accessibility.

Toilets within places

Facilities such as shops and pubs often have toilets inside them for customers, and sometimes free for the public as part of a scheme (e.g. Richmond Council). On the usual tags of amenity=pub, building=yes, shop=* add the following tags and use the 'toilets' namespace.

Please do not use toilet=yes (singular). In general please do not map toilets that are inaccessible to the public. Many buildings have toilets inside for workers or owners, but mapping these could create needless conflict or unrealistic expectations. Use toilets=no for places you might expect to find a usable toilet (e.g. a railway station or trailhead) where no public toilets are made available.

Other proposed or emerging keys for toilet tagging

access=key used if you must first ask for a key or token to access the facility.

toilets:disposal=pitlatrine if it uses a pit latrine (ie a hole in the ground) to help identify an outhouse or privy. Supercedes the obsoleted Key:pitlatrine.